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Stuff like this gives me goosebumps! Eagerly looking forward to what new information these trunks contain.
Yeeeeehaw!.......The Confederate Rosetta Stone!.........
I wonder if it says anything like “I foresee a future where whites will be legally discriminated against with minority quotas, set-asides, minority only scholarships, minority only boost in civil service tests, diversity programs, multiculturalism and such. Where colleges will teach socialism and vilify western culture and Christianity. Where illegal aliens will have more rights then citizens. Where boys will be taught to act like girls and girls will be taught to act like prostitutes. Where defending your country from attacks will be seen as crazy and where cowards and surrender monkeys will destroy America for their very own power...
Very interesting article. Thanks for the post.
“Was Robert E. Lee’s daughter, in some perverse way, a forerunner of Rosa Parks?”
I don’t understand why it was “perverse.”
Thanks, enjoyed this. She was quite a lady. I am surprised that she never married.
Interesting.
We lived in Richmond for a time. A wonderful city. In some quarters, the War of Northern Aggression isn’t over yet, and the Yankees most certainly didn’t win.
I loved that town.
Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.
— Robert E. Lee
Excellent find.
I would love to sit there and review everything in there...
Very cool!
It's kind of interesting that General Lee's estate has become the closest thing we have to sacred ground in America. I think he'd be proud of it today.
Dixie Ping
WOW!
On Sept. 23, 1862 — a few days after Lee’s army retreated to Virginia after an unsuccessful invasion of Maryland — the general wrote to Mary on a piece of cheap blue paper. Now, nearly 144 years later, the words are barely legible. “We had two hard fought battles in Maryland and did not consider ourselves beaten as our enemies supposed,” he wrote. “We were greatly outnumbered and opposed by double if not treble our strength and yet we repulsed all their attacks, held our ground and retired when it suited our convenience.”
That’s an interesting spin on the Battle of Antietam, an event that Abraham Lincoln considered a Union victory.
Actually, this is an interesting ‘spin’ by the Washington Post about the battle of Antietam / Sharpsburg.
Lee’s view is historically accurate. Lincoln claimed it was a ‘victory’ for the simple reason he was desperate to offer up the Emancipation Proclamation.
Between McClellan’s cowardice, and the ‘vaunted’ Pinkerton’s completely and totally fabricated ‘intelligence reports’ stating Lee had 200,000 troops when he had at best 37,000 the battle that should have ended the war right then and there was mismanaged to a degree thats unbelievable.
In 1874, the Lee family filed suit to reclaim its Arlington estate. In 1882, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in the family’s favor, saying, in essence, that the government cannot seize a man’s land simply because he has led an army of rebellion against that government. Of course, the family members did not want to live in a cemetery, so they agreed to accept $150,000 for the land — a huge sum in those days.
Another ‘wow’. I had no idea they sued and won, and were paid for the property.
“Dear Plantation Forum, I never knew the stories in your newspaper were true, until one night when Stonewall Jackson and I encountered a woman named Mary Todd who invited us for some supper...”